Started reading Defying Grafity, a book about the making of
Apple's Newton that I borrowed from voltron.
It's really neat stuff. Looking at what
people want to do with iPAQ and porting Linux/GNOME to it now,
it's freaky to released that the Newton team envisioned a
lot of that nearly 10 years ago. They were even able to ship
a product. Wow.

I went to AntiTrust with my friend voltron
last night. It was fun, I guess. I walked into the theater
all psyched out and ready for a kick-ass movie, but I guess
the stupid ads they show before the previews depressed me.
The previews they showed sucked too. The movie started, and
I felt like the movie sucked already.

It was an 'okay' film, with some interesting plot twists, I
guess. Anthony (aka voltron) liked it, actually, despite the
fact that he seemed to think otherwise before we walked in.
We move agree that it might not be an excellent movie about
the Free Software (Open Source) movement, it is an good/
acceptable starting point to get non-techie people
interested in Open Systems.

I think he is right that the movie was actually technically
quite accurate, for a Hollywood movie. I also remembered
that there were definitely scenes cut out from the movie
that you can see in the online trailer... ie. the scene
where you see Rachel Leigh Cook in her underwear. Oh
well.

Claire Forlani is so hot.

Iron-Chef and Giant Lopsters

Saw Iron Chef with tony after the movie. They cooked
giant lopsters... Iron Chef Italian vs. Tokyo-style Chinese
cuisine chef. Of course the Iron Chef won, he
definitely had the cooler appearance sequence. They
show him
raise to the Kitchen Stadium holding a bright red
ripe tomato... with a full orchestra(or was it
just the strings section)surrounding him.

I love Japanese TV.

ps. I wish raph would let me change my
username,
obviously even something like my friend
voltron (Anthony) thinks I'm
duncan on advogato, when I'm still
mustapha, that being my old nick that I
used for 1.5 years.

Bought the sigur ros CD last weekend. as
iain said, it's very
pretty. I made a
copy of it to Minidisc immediately after I bought it and it's
been in my MD player since last saturday. As I was browsing
thru
sigur ros' website, I was pleasently surprised to see
Chinese reviews from hong
kong... that's pretty nifty, i say.

Things have been quiet on the computer front. tried nautilus PR2 when it came
out and liked it a lot. the vault is a particularly cool
feature.

AP Computer Science class is getting a little more
interesting lately, since we stopped just C++ language
learning and started to talk about algorithms
and analyse how efficient they are. we got thru 4 sorting
algorithms by now: the selection, bubble, merge and insertion
sorts. today we worked out how to use Euclid's method to find
GCDs and also ended the lecture with an brief intro
topointers and references that would continue tomorrow. it'll
be fun and nice to finally pin down my understanding of how
pointers work, i'm looking forward to it.

while reading lilo's diary
entries... hmm,
maybe i should start writing python again. it's all depends on how
much time i have.

leaving for Montreal in a week for thanksgiving break.
hopefully i'll get to see Quebec city too... also need to
contact dria, or phil;
maybe I can get a tour of the ZKS facilities... ;-)

oh, i plan on buying stephen northcutt's book on
intrusion
detection to read during my Montreal trip. Dan Farmer and
Wieste venema has been putting out an excellent series of
articles on that topic on Dr.Dobb's.

we met george france from the Compaq Cambridge
Research Lab. We stayed there for around 2/3 hours in
the afternoon, mucking around with crazy hardware
and just having lots of fun hanging out in a research
lab.
Interesting sights: